Renfrewshire Foodbank is opening a new distribution centre in Renfrew to cope with unprecedented demands for help. Organisers The Trussell Trust say desperate locals are walking 10 miles from the town to Paisley and back again for hand-outs.

CORINNE Hutton, the charity fundraiser and former business woman who had her hands and legs amputated after contracting pneumonia, has suffered a third setback in her quest to receive the UK's first double hand transplant.